Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Young Janine Hansen of Nevada decries ERA as a plot to destroy the family. Her family is a significant one at this convention--they make up five of the nine members of the Nevada delegation. Soon, it becomes apparent that this is representative of much of the convention--a gathering...
As Wilber begins to tell me of his admiration for Calvin Coolidge (Herbert Hoover was another convention favorite), his wife appears and asks about a man who has just walked into the hotel and wants to be a delegate. Wilber instructs her to have him pay his money, sign in...
But this is the first day of the convention and the delegates are excited: waving flags, crying "hear! hear!", reveling in a pale imitation of the pageantry of a real national convention. 'Register Kissinger not Firearms,' 'The Rock Owns a Piece of Me,' and 'Don't Re-elect Anybody' bumper...
Colonel John Warnock of Arkansas rises to address the convention on the subject of 'America in Jeopardy.' Chief Justice Earl Warren was "the worst thing that ever happened" to the United States. "When he lay in state in the Supreme Court building" Warnock thundered, "over one million Negroes were in...
Outside the convention hall, former Louisiana Congressman John Rarick holds an impromptu press conference. Leaning on one leg and looking very cocky in his white shoes and gray, dry-look pompadour, Rarick, who gained a reputation as one of the most anti-Semitic men in Congress, discusses his hopes to...